St. Fergal’s College, Rathdown, Co. Laois

Beginning in Sept 2025, our TYs began rehearsing for their school musical High School Musical Jr. This involved script reading, stage direction, singing and choreography. The progress and development of each student was so rewarding for them and staff, as can be seen...

St. Aidan’s Community School, Tallaght, Dublin 24

TY students participated in a full day stained glass workshop with the artist Bianca Divito. They learned about key techniques and how to safely use specialist tools. Each student designedand created an individual stained glass piece, developing their creativity,...

Magh Éne College, Co. Donegal

Celebrating Art, Culture and Community – Magh Éne Mural Project The Magh Éne Mural Creative Engagement Project was a collaborative, student-led initiative involving Transition Year and Fifth Year students in the design and creation of a large-scale mural reflecting...

Royal School Cavan

This Creative Engagement Project, Comic Strip Art, was a successful collaboration between a professional animator and students, focusing on the fundamentals of 2D visual storytelling. Under expert guidance, students moved beyond simple drawing to master character...

St. Kilians Community School, Bray, Co. Wicklow

For this Creative Engagement Project the school wanted to do something very inclusive so that all the transition year students would be able to create a piece of work for a group mural. They designated a classroom space that the mural would fit into and chose acrylic...

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Limerick College of Further Education

Limerick College of Further Education

Limerick College of Further Education have finished their Creative Engagement Project 2019, Fashion Promotion. Artist: Owen Rafferty Teacher: Miia Satama

St. Brigids Secondary School, Killarney 2019

St. Brigids Secondary School, Killarney 2019

St Brigid’s Secondary School Creative Engagement project 2019 centres on themes of diversity with a group of Transition Year students. The students explored themes such as embracing diversity, self-respect and working collaboratively within their school environment....

Mayfield Community School, Cork 2019

Mayfield Community School, Cork 2019

Mayfield Community School are well into their Creative Engagement project 2019 with artist Hazel Hutton. The students have finished the casting and next week they will be finishing off their varnishing and preparing for installation. Installation should take a further...

Christ King Girls’ Secondary School, Cork 2019

Christ King Girls’ Secondary School, Cork 2019

Christ King Girls' Secondary School, Cork have had a busy year creating their Creative Engagement Project 2019 - 6 8ft x 4ft paintings created since September with artist Marie Harkin who started in November. There is a mix of graffiti, fantasy art etc. with all...

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St Brendan’s Community School,  Birr 2018

St Brendan’s Community School, Birr 2018

St Brendan's Community School Birr.  Performance art  Creative Engagement project.   Exploration of Bio Diversity in bogs,  through the study of the writings of Mary Ward, Botanist and the lens of Collete and Tina Claffey's graphic art and photographic input.  A...

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IMMA Exhibition, Evaluation and Application Forms.

The Creative Engagement Exhibition will be held October 3 in IMMA. The Booking Form is on the web site under Forms on the menu .  As the total number of projects  is large and as there are only 42 places in the exhibition hall it is important to get Booking Forms in...

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It is an arts-in-education programme.  This entails an artist or artists coming into the school to work with the students. A creative engagement happens when a local artist or  arts  group comes into the school and imparts their skills, knowledge and enthusiasm to the students.  This partnership has mutual benefits to both artist and school. Creative Engagement programme encompasses the arts in its broadest manifestation, from the visual arts to music, from theatre to dance and all the arts in between.

The Creative Engagement programme strives to encourage creativity, initiative and expression in our students and to complement curricular learning in the arts , heritage and culture.  NAPD envisions an education system energised through the arts and where creativity is a core activity in the post primary curriculum.   The NAPD Arts Culture and Heritage committee celebrates its twenty fourth anniversary this year 2023.  The Arts Culture and Heritage committee has been  administering the Creative Engagement programme in schools since 2005.